Word: smacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...magician who cannot even get hired for children's birthday parties, has left her and fled to Las Vegas, where he hopes to perfect his lounge act. Towing Billy, her eight-year-old who sometimes wore a look so awful "complete strangers had to fight off the urge to smack him," and a baby "who hadn't the slightest notion of what a father was," she arrives exhausted at her Hemlock Street dream house. Confronted by a lawn grown weedy, a kitchen reeking of rotten garbage, and a stopped-up toilet, she ignores all the signs of suburban hell...
...smack of science fiction, but the planners are deadly serious. The race is being sponsored by the Christopher Columbus Quincentennial Jubilee Commission, which hopes to get the ships launched around Oct. 12, 1992, the 500th anniversary of the discovery of America. Among the spacecraft designers are former NASA and aerospace experts. And included on the committee that will choose the winning designs are Lieut. General James Abrahamson, former head of the Star Wars program, and former astronauts Frank Borman and John Glenn...
...Andy Hardy for the '90s: a scheming innocent, ever wavering between girlfriends, ever scampering away from trouble and smack into worse. With his impish, Darryl Strawberry-size grin and an 8-in.-high flattop haircut that looks like a pillbox hat out of Zsa Zsa's closet, Kid (Christopher Reid) swipes audience sympathy from the get-go. Now he sits in the principal's office after a cafeteria fight with evil dude Stab (Paul Anthony). Seems Stab has branded Kid's dead mother a whore. The white principal is befuddled. "Why in God's name," she asks the perp...
...women were the highlight in the slalom, with Dershowitz carving her way to a career-high second place finish, while Valeria Scott, recovering from a deep thigh bruise suffered last week, to smack her way through the gates to crack...
...order to begin my research, I headed for Widener Library to review the relevant literature--and ran smack into the bars of the "Erotic Cage." This room is a restricted-access area in the bowels of Widener containing journals on sexuality. Why aren't these journals in the regular stacks? The library employees I asked didn't know, but I presume it's because the University considers them too dirty for undergraduate minds. A typical excerpt from the Journal of Sex Research...